Everything at the Chu Chu workshop in Dala, which lies south of the Yangon River in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon, is carefully crafted from trash – from the building itself right down to the products that are made and sold at the workshop.

The roof is made from old tyres and the walls from glass bottles. And inside this treasure trove of recycled-trash-made-handicrafts is where you will find lampshades cut from melted plastic bags, a technique that includes forming a plastic…